The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-11-03
TALMAGE ON ANIDIOSITY.

ito Tells His IIearors to Exercise Unlimit-
ed Forglvoness-Man, Whose Last Plea Is
for Mercy for Himself, Should Grant 1t to
His Ncighbors.
"Harness your forgiveness to the sun
set! If you don't forgive your enemies
you won't como near enough to the har-
hor of Heaven to SOC the lightship," said
DIR. Talmage, addressing sOmo 5000
people in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on
Sunday morning.
ooh, let not the sun go down on your
wrath" he continued. Don't wait till
Cos this evening, when the sun sets to
forgive, but do it at the meridian. Very
many people are troubled with insomnia.
Few can sleep peacefully from 10 at
night till 6 the next morning. I'll give
you an unrailing recipe for wakefulness,
Think over oil the wrongs that have been
done you by people, then write long
letter about it; take out of their pigeon
holes all tho mean things you know about
your enemies, then go to sleep if you
can; lio on your. back and you'll have
nightmare.
"My friends, it is best to put bound
on your animosities. Will you let the
man who robbed you como and bend
over your pillow? Why not fence him
off with the golden bars of sunset? Why
let these thoughts disturb your slumbers?
The fact is there are thousands of mon
and women who let their thoughts de-
stroy their physical haalth. Many man
carries beneath his vest n gnawing ami
mostly. There are hundreds of thou
sands of families whore there is the
greatest need of spirit Of forgiveness.
BY the memory of your fathers and
mothers grave be reconciled."
DR.. Talmage related q case Of faith
cure that. he witnessed in England where
tho use of woman's arm, that had been
useless for years, was restored to her in
presence Of q number Of people. "Since
then," said he, 81 believe God can do
anything. If man is ever SO crooked
with hate for follow being, God can
straighten him out. Lay hold of AL
tells Of man who hated his father SO
much that he burned his body after he
died, then took the ashes and put them
in sacks and tied half the sacks to eagles
that flew east, and half to others that
flow west,
"Another reason why we should for
givo," said the preacher, ''is that we
may not live to sec another day. Most
people die between II at night and 3 in
the morning. Something in the atmos-
phere seems to relax the body from the
soul ut that time. They are apt to go
out during the darkest hours of the
night, and Heaven, always bright, is
-. brighter then when they enter it. Oh,
, in that dark night, when we we leave this
world, our great plea will be mercy.
What plight our souls will be in if we
: come unf orgiving!
81 know or nothing more thrilling
= than the discovery at Pompeii Of that
y y soldier who had been on guard 1,700
years, standing with hand on sword hel.
Il met on head, at the post of duty, when
others in tho doomed city were flying
for their lives. We want to be on guard
for God, true here and true there. /
- don't suppose I'm much more of cow
ard than other people, but L tell you
plainly l could not sleep tonight unless
could shake hands with any one on
. earth"
"If man won't be reconcilcd you
give in to him. oh, says some woman,
Il can't forgive her; she's done too much; j;
: she's too hateful; it's no use; can't for
+ give her and / won't My sister. you
Il can if you try. A man says: "Hhat fol
& low started those storicssa in the newspa-
pcrs about me; he's too mean for any
0 thing; Pll get even with him; I'll make
. him squirm.' Better resign that feeling,
u y my friend. But says some one in the
= = gallery, you don't know what Two got
y to bear or you wouldn't talk that way
q "Then you make me think Of the little
IL girl who WIS helping her father on
. moving day. The father put large
package in her arms, then piled on
q article after article till a stranger, who
> was passing, said: Hold on! you are
> putting too much Of load on that little
Il girl. The child, looking up askancc at
> tho stranger, said: Father knows how
u much [ can carry and our Father in
IL Heaven knows how much we can carry.
"Anothcr reason why we ought to
III ally tho sublimest action with the
II sublimest scene in nature. It's delight
IT, full to have eomo old place, old tree, ole
10 room or old gate associated with some
= action. Now, o man, associate the sun
% set with unlimited forgiveness of al
20 enemies. If you fail at first, go right
on. Shakespeare wrote scvon plays be
fore he wrote Hamlet and twenty -cigh
before he wrote Macbeth The MAJ
or woman least to b'amc is gcnorally the
n one to take the first stop toward recon
nc ciliation. Oh man, take that stop, i
nc will make you measure three inches NOR
C. around the chest, your respiration will
ps be better aye, it will make you NOR
like God himself.
at "Harncss your forgiveness to the sun
Is set. You've heard about the sunset Q
rn the Cordillcras, in the Apeninos an
IN, Italy; but there is finer one to be see
lid whom you throw all your animosities i
use and lot the horses of fire tramplo ther
,at out, tho chariots Of fire roll over then
30 the pillows of fire o'orwholm them. God
10 greatest achievement is this sunset; you
rs greatest, forgiveness.
al "You never saw two sunsets alike, an
he think that if God can afford to han
over the wall Of Heaven more master
of pieces Of natural art than all the Italia
OF and Venetian galleries contain he ca
IS take good care Of us. If God be for Il
IA who can be against us? SO the sunst
IS Of earth is the sunrise Of Heaven"